Expired Barn Find

It’s tragic, but sometimes car guys don’t come across a barn find until it’s too late. While on a dual-sport motorcycle ride through Ohio, reader Ted Guthrie came across this long-ago abandoned ’57 Chevy. Ted tells us, “It’s just sittin’ out in front of an old, falling-down house, literally right at the edge of a dead-end, gravel township road.” The car was clearly campaigned by a drag racer, as the rotting slicks, rusty tach, and swapped in four-speed weren’t factory—nor was the massive gouge in the passenger-side quarter-panel that could have come from a run-in with a guardrail at nearby Quaker City Dragstrip.

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Under the hood, there’s a small-block with headers and a factory dual-quad intake with period-correct Carter WCFB 4-bbls. Ted closed his note to us by mentioning that, “there are more cars in the bushes across the street. My buddy stuck his head under the hood of a ’58 Chevy and came back sayin’ it’s got a Tri-Power.”